Dog-friendly Birthday Cake recipe

Updated 16 July 2024

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Article Contents

Throw them a pawty!
Dog-friendly Birthday Cake: Step-by-step
Ingredients
Instructions
Pooch & Mutt toppings and fillers

Our pooches' birthdays and ‘gotcha’ days are a momentous occasion in any dog-parent’s calendar!

A day to smother them (even more than usual) with love, pawresents, treatos - and even a doggo birthday cake for the most elite of the pampered pups.

The 23rd July marks Pepper’s Birthday - our incredible Founder’s even more incredible pooch (sorry Guy). So what better time to share our recipe for a lip-smackingly good, dog-friendly birthday cake recipe?

Throw them a pawty!

Most of our furry friends are likely to have tried a pupcake or two in their lives. But having one big pawty-style cake to make them feel like royalty on their special day, is worth every bit of effort.

Singing, slicing and sharing amongst pooch pals = the recipe to success.

Throw in a pawty hat, games with furiends, and all their favourite people - and it’ll be a day to remember for everyone.

Dog-friendly Birthday Cake: Step-by-step

Ready to bake the cake of dreams? Follow the recipe below from our Pooch Pack ambassador, @gsd.called.zeus :

Ingredients

Birthday Cake

2 eggs
110 g xylitol free peanut butter
60ml oil (salmon, coconut, olive)
150ml milk (or water)
5 tbsp honey
2 large shredded carrots
480g of wholemeal or white flour*
2 1/2 tsp baking soda

*As flour is usually made from wheat, use an alternative if your dog's intolerant or allergic to grains. Good options include coconut flour or almond flour.

Frosting

600g - 700g potatoes , peeled and cut into chunks
240g yogurt (plain unsweetened) or water

Instructions

Cake

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F (160C fan)
Grease and line the base of 2 x 20cm/8” cake tins
Whisk together eggs, peanut butter, oil, honey and milk (small peanut butter lumps are okay)
Stir in carrots, then add flour and baking soda. Stir until just combined (over mixing = hard cake = sad birthday pooch)
Divide batter between the cake pans, spread and smooth surface
Bake for 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
Leave to cool on wire racks

Fluffy frosting

Boil potatoes until very soft
Whip potato and yoghurt together with an electric whisk, until fluffy and smooth as possible
Use water as needed to loosen frosting to a soft, spreadable consistency (like human buttercream frosting!)
Spread while warm, as it ‘sets’ when cool

Decorating

Spread 1/4 frosting on one cake
Top with other cake. Frost tops and sides with remaining frosting, reserving some to pipe decorations if desired
Garnish with your dog’s favourite Pooch & Mutt products!